Everything has a Season

This week I went to a stress evaluation center at BYU called the Biofeedback lab. There they hook you up to whole bunch of monitors and measure your stress response in your heart rate, breathing, hand temperature, and muscle tension. Then they teach you to control that response through breathing, and other methods. I was practicing my breathing with a pacer, where you have to breathe along with a moving dot. I was actually getting a bit stressed about doing it right, and worried that I wasn't going to be ready to breathe out or in when the dot told me to. As I was worrying, I suddenly realized that I was being ridiculous. Sure, if I didn't breathe in when I needed to it was going to hurt, and if I didn't breathe out when I needed to, it was going to hurt, but I couldn't breathe in when I was breathing out, or out when I was breathing in. I physically could not do both at the same time, so there was not point in worrying about the next step until it was time to do it. I knew that the time would come to breathe in or out, so I could sit back and relax.

Life is like this. We can't do everything at the same time. There will come a time to do everything, and if we have a time scheduled to do those things, there is no point in worrying about them. I cannot do my chem homework at the same time as I am writing a paper, so I should pick one to do first, and not worry about the other one until that time comes. I need to be more present in the moment, taking each challenge one at a time, until they are all completed and there is another set of challenges to take on. There will always be challenges, so there is not point in worrying about what the next will be while we are still taking on the current one.

God says in Ecclesiastes 3:1-8:
"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace."

Before the next time comes, there is no point in worrying about it. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. 

The picture is a Tiffany Stained glass.